Abstract: A packing for a flat, rectangular product includes a wrapper sheet surrounding the product at its large faces to form a sleeve which has face-to-face arranged end portions sealed together adjacent a longitudinal packing edge to form a fin seal. The end portions form, beyond the fin seal, an inner and an outer longitudinal panel. The wrapper sheet further has two opposite end closure flaps folded, from opposite longitudinal ends of the product, onto the sleeve on one of the large faces of the product, and the panels are folded onto the sleeve on the large face. The outer panel projects beyond the inner panel and covers the end closure flaps. A securing arrangement attaches the outer panel to the sleeve on the large face of the product.

Abstract: An apparatus for separating and conveying substantially rectangular, plate-like objects has a delivery conveyor, a removal conveyor situated adjacent the delivery conveyor and having a transporting direction substantially parallel to the transporting direction of the delivery conveyor; and a fork gripper mechanism for sequentially transferring the objects from the delivery conveyor to the removal conveyor.

Abstract: An apparatus for the periodic transverse welding and severing of longitudinally advanced superposed wrapper sheets has two oppositely rotating, cooperating welding shoes, at least one of which is provided with a heater and at least one of which is displaced towards its rotary axis by virtue of the engagement between the welding shoes during each revolution thereof. One welding shoe has a tapered terminal head which includes leading and trailing flanks as well as a cutting edge. The other welding shoe has a counterface cooperating with the cutting edge and two elastic, rod-like members arranged adjacent and parallel to the counterface. As the welding shoes simultaneously engage the superposed wrapper sheets from opposite sides, the leading flank of the tapered head, cooperating with one of the elastic rod-like members pinches the wrapper sheets and provides a first transverse weld seam.

Abstract: An apparatus for periodically forming transverse seams in a longitudinally advanced wrapper hose for transversely sealing the wrapper hose between articles previously arranged therein, has cooperating rotary upper and lower sealing shoes between which the wrapper hose passes and which periodically pinch the wrapper hose walls together and transversely seal them to one another. There is further provided a flexible bar grate arranged to support the wrapper hose in the zone of the sealing shoes. The bar grate is formed of a plurality of parallel-spaced interconnected bars which include two end bars, each articulated to a connecting rod. The connecting rods, in turn, are articulated to one another by a joint pin. A drive arm is affixed to the shaft of the lower sealing shoe spaced from and aligned with the latter. The drive arm has a radial guide groove into which projects the joint pin of the connecting rods. The lower sealing shoe projects into the space between the two end bars.